Word: mengelberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beethoven's First Symphony by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Willem Mengelberg (Victor, $8)-A capable performance by the Dutchman who last year left the U. S. because he could not play a capable second fiddle to Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The recording is excellent...
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet by Conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $4)-Toscanini would scorn playing this popular love music inspired by Tchaikovsky's unrequited passion for a French singing actress. Mengelberg and his home orchestra give it a glowing performance...
...Philippe Gaubert and the ?Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, 2 records, $2 ea.)?In three parts, this glittering, skirling fantasia fully reveals the mind which created Macbeth-like Boris Godounov. Bizet's Adagietto from L'Arlésienne Suite, on the back of the second disc, recorded by Willem Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...
...memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College, N. Y. The principle: same as the typewriter. Dr. Stoehr has labored on his invention for twelve years, earning at last the praise of no less a maestro than Josef Willem Mengelberg...
...Manhattan definite announcement confirmed recent rumor: Conductor Willem Mengelberg will not return next season to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, Jan. 27). In London last week it became known that he had been engaged to conduct the London Symphony in 60 concerts, an ambitious orchestral season for Britishers, inspired by the recent visits of the Berlin and Vienna orchestras under Wilhelm Furtwangler, another onetime New York Philharmonic conductor...